{"id":282443,"date":"2024-12-16T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=282443"},"modified":"2024-12-12T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:47:21","slug":"from-tyrant-to-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/12\/from-tyrant-to-tyrant\/","title":{"rendered":"From Tyrant to Tyrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>11 Dec 2024 &#8211;<\/em> Iraq after Saddam Hussein or Libya after Gaddafi: Both dictators were ruthless but their removals didn\u2019t bring peace or freedom; they left power vacuums that sucked in chaos, sectarian violence, endless militias, corrupt leaders grabbing at scraps.<\/p>\n<p>In Syria, we\u2019re seeing something similar. Assad\u2019s fall didn\u2019t come with a roadmap to democracy or stability. Instead, it is handing power to Jihadi extremists, the kind who burn books and crush the public under their so-called morality.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough to overthrow a tyrant if the system that replaces him is just another brand of oppression. What comes next is worse than what came before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/syria-assad-extremism-sunni-cartoon.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-282447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/syria-assad-extremism-sunni-cartoon-1024x773.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/syria-assad-extremism-sunni-cartoon-1024x773.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/syria-assad-extremism-sunni-cartoon-300x226.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/syria-assad-extremism-sunni-cartoon-768x580.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/syria-assad-extremism-sunni-cartoon.webp 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Racket-Cartoons-daniel-medina-e1678774481899.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-231508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Racket-Cartoons-daniel-medina-e1678774481899.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Daniel Medina &#8211; My cartoons stand up firmly against racism, xenophobia, hate bigotry, and ignorance. Regardless of the political party one belongs to, if you try to take advantage of the people, you will not be safe from my pen. Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:contactdanielmedinacomics@gmail.com\"><em>contactdanielmedinacomics@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/racketcartoons.substack.com\/p\/from-tyrant-to-tyrant?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=549592&amp;post_id=152987575&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=b6biw&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" >Go to Original \u2013 racketcartoons.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Dec 2024 &#8211; Assad\u2019s fall didn\u2019t come with a roadmap to democracy or stability. Instead, it is handing power to Jihadi extremists, the kind who burn books and crush the public under their so-called morality. It\u2019s not enough to overthrow a tyrant if what comes next is worse than what came before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":282447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[703,1012,2158,767,599,413,2841],"class_list":["post-282443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-al-qaeda","tag-food-for-thought-editorial-cartoon","tag-jihadists","tag-middle-east","tag-oppression","tag-syria","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282451,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282443\/revisions\/282451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}